Tag: amor fati

• Our Powerlessness and the Question of How to Live

  Job 38:12-21 – 5/29/2026 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place[?] Job 38:12 (NRSVue) The answer to God’s rhetorical question to Job and his companions is obviously no. No one other than God commands the morning dawn to rise, not the righteous nor the unrighteous,…

  Justin R Marquis

  May 27, 2026

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  amor fati, buddhism, christianity, existentialism, god, hope, life, life affirmation, Nietzsche, philosophy, resignation, spirituality

• The nihilism of serenity or how to learn to stop worrying and love fate

  The alcoholic who has hit rock bottom prays to a higher power, “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” We feel powerless before an indifferent and hostile universe that doles out suffering and disappointment no matter what choices we make. No one asks for serenity in the face of good and…

  Justin R Marquis

  November 29, 2020

  The Self as a Work of Art

  alcoholics anonymous, amor fati, eternal return, life affirmation, love of fate, Nietzsche, nihilism, serenity prayer